At some point in a transformed life, what once seemed to be an
insurmountable barrier, a veritable showstopper in fact,
becomes almost cliché‑ic, even quaint. It's the
issue of time: having enough time and, to be specific,
having enough time to do the things you want to do,

The issue is twofold:

1)

If you didn't have to do the things you don't want to
do, you'd have more time on your hands to do the things you
want to do;

2)

No one, not even the leader of the Free World, the President of the
United States, has any more time than you have. We're all
evenhandedly dealt twenty four hours each a day with no exceptions.
So if there's going to be more time, it isn't going to come from
the clock nor from the calendar. It's going to come from
shifting the context in which you do what you want to
do in whatever time is left over after you have to do
what you don't want to do.

The way the time issue is articulated is quite revealing. When we say
"I don't have enough time", the implication is "I don't have enough
time to do the things I want to do.". And the implication
of the implication is "I do have time, but
it's all taken up doing the things I have to do but don't
want to do.". In other words, the things I
have to do aren't necessarily the things I
want to do.

Time Bandits - The Movie

This conversation isn't a mini-time management course,
and I'm not a time manager. If anything, if pushed, I'd say I
consider myself to be a time bandit. In the movie Time
Bandits, the fabulous Sir Ralph Richardson plays no less than the
Supreme Being. When asked why there's evil in the world, he
muses "Ahhh ... I think it's something to do with
free will ...". But that's a subject for another
conversation on another occasion.

What I'd like to grapple with here is the shift towards owning
everything there is to do in my life rather than only owning the
things I want to do, and not fully owning the things I have to do
but don't want to do.

When I own all of it, when it's ... ALL ... MINE! ...
then I want to do whatever there is to do. When I own
all of it, then I want to do it all because it's ...
ALL ... MINE! Then my life isn't split between what I
want to do and what I have to do but don't want to do. Then all of
it is what I want to do and I want to do it all. When I
don't own all of it, then whatever there is I have to do but don't
want to do, devours the precious time I could use to do what I want
to do ... or so it would seem ...

Can you get the scarcity in this way of looking at
time? Ordinarily when we say someone is coming from
scarcity, we could be referring to how they are about
money.

When I own all of it I'm never short of time. When I own all of it
I've got all the time in the world. That's all we'll ever
have, literally and exactly: "all the time in the world". When I
align my life with Life, when I own all of it, when I stand
for transformation (which is to say when I transform my
life) I've got all the time there'll ever be. In fact
when I transform my life, I've got more time than I'll ever know
what to do with. I've got time on my hands, whereas before this
shift there never seemed to be enough time - ever.

Werner
Erhard
may look at the possibility of scheduling time in fifteen minute
intervals for the next twenty years. You and I may look at the
possibility of scheduling time in one hour intervals for the next
month. Neither is worse than the other. Neither is
better than the other. Scheduling time in fifteen
minute intervals for the next twenty years is neither worse nor
better than scheduling time in one hour intervals for the next
month. Scheduling is scheduling. Time management is time
management. If they work, they work. If they don't work, they don't
work, so cut them out and try something else. This
conversation is about neither of those. This conversation is about
shifting the context in which you hold time.

Transformation brings the possibility of owning all of
Life and doing it all. Not owning all of it forces the distinction ie
drives a wedge between things you want to do, and things you have to do
but don't want to do. The simple contextual shift of
transformation includes all of it, instantly making available
the possibility of doing all of it as what you want to do.
There's nothing left outside this possibility, nothing left that you
have to do but don't want to do. What must be done is still what must
be done. What shifts is the arbitrary distinction between "what I want
to do" and "what I have to do but don't want to do". Both of these
merge into "I want to do all of it" in a transformed life. And if,
inside this new paradigm there's a wedge to be driven anyway, it'll be
between one thing you want to do and another thing you want to do,
rather than between things you want to do and things you have to do but
don't want to do. And so you choose and prioritize inside this new
context of wanting to do it all.

I assert this is living as if your life depends on it. And if
you're not yet living this way, then tell me: What the heck are you
doing???